BY JONAN MUZIGIT
Residents of Kasika village in Rukoki Sub- County, Busongora County South in Kasese District have re-occupied a deadly landslide bound spot despite losing 16 lives of people and an assortment of multi-million property including shops and roads among others in 2022.
Their decision to re-occupy the affected area came after the government’s alleged failure to resettle them as promised, having spent months of misery in the temporary camps which they created shortly after the devastating disaster.
Seleh Mukimbwa, one of the residents said that they could not continue adhering to the hash life in the camps and chose to go back to their initial pieces of land as they wait for the government to look for a long-lasting solution.
YeresiMbindule, a mother of eight children, revealed that the recent rains washed away their crops in the same spot, a clear manifestation that the disaster might re-occur.
While, Jockus Baluku disclosed that their lives were at stake following the rocks on the hill, which according to him, have remained bear with the lines of weakness vividly witnessed.
Former Rukoki Sub- County Chairperson, Yohana Muhindo Kidweke who tasked government to intervene by immediately resettling the affected people, disclosed that over 100 households are at stake of facing a more disastrous incident than that of 2022 as the current rains intensify.
Joseph Singoma, the Kasese District Disaster Focal Person disclosed that any alarm of disaster is of their great concern, looking at the 62 lives of people lost since the floods of 2013 and social economic infrastructure worth shillings 82 billion destroyed across the district.
He appealed to the people living in red zone areas prone to disasters to run away for their lives.
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